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TODAY

Chicago White Sox at Cincinnati (7:10 p.m.). The teams from the infamous 1919 World Series meet again, 90 years later.

WEDNESDAY STARS

Mark Reynolds, Diamondbacks, homered off Zack Greinke to help Arizona beat Kansas City 12-5.

Matt Wieters, Orioles, hit his first home run to help Baltimore beat the New York Mets 6-4.

John Lannan, Nationals, pitched into the ninth inning and Washington hung on for a 3-2 win over the New York Yankees.

Scott Richmond, Blue Jays, struck out a career-high 11 in eight innings to help Toronto beat Philadelphia 7-1.

John Danks, White Sox, pitched seven scoreless innings to lead the Chicago White Sox over the cross-town rival Cubs 4-1.

SULTAN OF SQUAT

Ivan Rodriguez caught the 2,227th game of his career, breaking Carlton Fisk's record on Wednesday night. But the longtime Rangers backstop couldn't celebrate another Texas win, as his Houston Astros lost 5-4 in 10 innings.

FOURTH TIME'S THE CHARM

After striking out his first three times up, Mark Reynolds homered off Zack Greinke to get him out of the game and the Diamondbacks put up six more runs against the bullpen to beat the Royals 12-5 on Wednesday night.

OH MY, OMAR

Omar Vizquel matched Hall of Famer Luis Aparicio for the most hits by a player from Venezuela, getting No. 2,677 in the Rangers' 5-4 win in 10 innings Wednesday night against the Houston Astros. It was the 2,706th career game for the 41-year-old Vizquel, who is in his 21st major league season.

COMEBACK TRAIL

Eight-time All-Star John Smoltz is scheduled to start next Thursday for Boston at Washington. In his final scheduled tuneup, he pitched four innings for the Triple-A Pawtucket Red Sox on Wednesday night, giving up one run on Keith Ginter's leadoff homer for the Charlotte Knights in the third. After undergoing major shoulder surgery, he had gone nearly 12 months without pitching in a game before six rehab starts.

HURTIN' HURLERS

Toronto ace Roy Halladay, Seattle's Erik Bedard and Houston's Mike Hampton were all placed on the disabled list Wednesday. The Blue Jays plan to put Halladay, who strained his right groin last Friday, on the DL on Thursday. The 2003 AL Cy Young Award winner, Halladay is 10-1 with a 2.53 ERA this season. Bedard was placed on the 15-day disabled list on Wednesday with shoulder inflammation and Hampton will sit due to a left groin strain

SPEAKING

"It's like, 'What do you want for dinner? You want linguine with red clam sauce, or white clam?' They're both good." - Angels manager Mike Scioscia, who was able to use Torii Hunter and Vladimir Guerrero as pinch hitters to spark a three-run rally that beat the San Francisco Giants 4-3 Wednesday.